Neurologic correction in MMPI/MMPI-2 profiles of closed head injury patients

Title Attentional Profiles of Patients with Closed-Head Injury

2 Biomechanics of Closed Head Injury

This chapter discusses ways in which the brain is thought to be injured by a blunt impact to the head. The impacting object is assumed to be unlikely to penetrate the skull in the manner of a bullet, for example. The chapter is also concentrated on injuries to the brain, rather than lacerations and abrasions to the scalp or fractures of the skull. Obviously, if the skull is fractured and displa...

P87: Closed Traumatic Brain Injury Model in Sheep Mimicking High-Velocity, Closed Head Trauma in Humans

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13 Closed Head Injury

Closed head injury is the leading cause of death in young patients in industrialized countries. Patients who survive the initial injury are susceptible to sustaining secondary cerebral insults which are initiated by the release of endogenous neurotoxic inflammatory mediators. The presence of hypoxia and hypotension in the early resuscitative period represents the ‘‘key’’ parameter for induction...

Sleep and dreaming disturbances in closed head injury patients.

Single night sleep recordings in closed head injury patients 6 to 59 months after injury revealed less stage 1 and a greater number of awakenings compared to age matched controls. Neither the time spent in REM sleep nor the Wechsler Memory Quotient were related to complaints of decreased or absent dreaming following injury. The proportion of REM and number of awakenings, however, showed a moder...